Fu on what he hopes to accomplish in the next decade: “During the next decade, we hope to provide general solutions to coupling a wide range of nucleophiles and alkyl electrophiles, including enantioconvergent processes. We believe that success in this area could be transformative for organic synthesis.”

What his colleagues say: “Fu has made several pathfinding contributions to the development of synthetic methods that have impacted the way that chemists think about building organic molecules.”—Peter Dervan, California Institute of Technology